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Francesco Battaglioli (Modena, circa 1710 – Venice, after 1796) was an Italian painter. Of Modenese origin, as ancient sources indicate, he was present in Venice, which effectively became his adopted homeland, from 1747 to 1751, a period in which his name appears in the Painters' Fraglia. Read the full biography

Francesco Battaglioli (Modena, circa 1710 – Venice, after 1796) was an Italian painter. Of Modenese origin, as ancient sources indicate, he was present in Venice, which effectively became his adopted homeland, from 1747 to 1751, a period in which his name appears in the Painters' Fraglia. We find him again in Madrid three years later, when he was called by Ferdinand VI, for whom he painted the Views of the Royal Palaces of Aranjuez and Madrid. At the Spanish court he established a collaborative relationship with Farinelli and Metastasio, creating the sets for numerous melodramatic representations. Returning to Venice upon the death of the king (1759), he was elected member of the Academy in 1772: in the Venetian institution he was called to cover the chair of Perspective from 1778 to 1789.